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Weho News reports that the area where a pedestrian suffered critical injuries today has been trying to get a crosswalk for years. Specifically, they have been waiting for the installation of a light and controlled crosswalk on the stretch of San Vicente between Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue.

Apparently, the city is waiting as the crosswalk would be part of an agreement with the prospective developer of the land to the west of the accident.

Lauren Meister, president of the West Hollywood West Residents Association, which San Vicente Boulevard (nicknamed the Speedway) cuts in two, wasted little time in declaiming West Hollywood’s delay after the accident today, sending a scathing email to city council members.

“We have been asking for a traffic light or crosswalk with a light on San Vicente at Rosewood/Ashcroft … for years,” she wrote in an E mail to the West Hollywood City Council on which she copied WeHo News.

Read more coverage and email contents at Weho News